Chapter 43

Goddess….

Tatum realises his mistake. He has seen her so much as a self sufficient person whose independence and strength he admires so much that he forgot that in her core, she is still…just— a woman.

He stands up and sits on the bed beside her, holding her before she can move away, his remorseful eyes looking into her soulless ones.

“You have every right to be upset but we can fix this, just don’t bring up the divorce again.”

“There’s nothing to fix Tatum. You brought Carmela into our home without asking me how I feel about it. Let me ask you, when you go to bed in her arms every night, do you ever wonder what must be going through the head of the woman next door?”

Even though Leila’s tone is steady and cold, it is laden with so much pain that Tatum feels it in his heart.

Why does she never mention anything to him? She let him assume she is okay with everything when she says nothing.

And she is wrong, he has never gon